Table 2.

Pathogenicity test of selected isolates of olive defoliating (D) and non-defoliating (ND) Verticillium dahliae pathotypes carried out in different Arabidopsis thaliana accessions.

A. thaliana genotype	V. dahliae isolate	Disease assessment
		SAUDPC	DII	Final DI (%)
Col-0	V138I (D)	0.80a	0.95	100
	V150I (D)	0.86a	0.95	100
	V937I (D)	0.53cd	0.70	100
	V789I (ND)	0.48de	0.39	95
ein2	V138I (D)	0.80a	0.94	100
	V150I (D)	0.83a	0.95	100
	V937I (D)	0.75ab	0.87	100
	V789I (ND)	0.36ef	0.24	80
jar1	V138I (D)	0.74ab	0.89	95
	V150I (D)	0.65bc	0.74	95
	V937I (D)	0.43d	0.55	85
	V789I (ND)	0.23f	0.19	50
sid1	V138I (D)	0.85a	0.96	100
	V150I (D)	0.74ab	0.93	100
	V937I (D)	0.49d	0.65	85
	V789I (ND)	0.44d	0.41	85

Standardized area under the disease progress curve (SAUDPC) of a DII (disease intensity index) plotted over time and final disease incidence (DI, percentage of affected plants) were calculated at the end of the experiment (38 days after pathogen inoculation). Means in a column followed by different letters are significantly different in accordance to Fisher’s protected LSD test (P < 0.05). See Section “Materials and Methods” for details.